PdfToolbox offers powerful, dynamic and easy to integrate PDF processing, from quick visual inspection and fixing to fully unattended processing of thousands of files.
PdfToolbox 13.1 introduces several corrections and new functionalities, and it implements the new GWG 2022 specifications.
‘Compliance to standards has always been a cornerstone of our strategy. It’s important for us and for our many OEM partners,’ said Dietrich von Seggern, Managing Director at Callas software. ‘We endeavour to implement all relevant graphic arts related standards, whether they come from the International Standards Organisation (ISO) or the Ghent Workgroup. With pdfToolbox 13.1, we’re pleased to be able to react so quickly on the release of the 2022 specifications from the Ghent Workgroup.’
PdfToolbox 13.1 implements all variants of the GWG specifications. A few tweaks and additional features for the preflight engine of pdfToolbox were necessary to support the new GWG specifications. Preflight profiles that completely implement all variants can be found in the pdfToolbox preflight library.
The GWG 2022 specifications require preflight applications to check the whether the document contains areas with too much ink. New here is that it is sometimes required to check only process colours and sometimes to check also spot colours. This is now possible in pdfToolbox 13.1.
A major feature of the GWG 2022 specifications is that they allow preflight applications to be intelligent in how they check PDF files. They can now ignore objects that could never cause production problems (the easiest example is that objects that are completely invisible, can be ignored). This reduces the number of false positives (PDF files that throw errors, but really shouldn’t) and is great for production. pdfToolbox has had its Sifter technology to do this for years and in pdfToolbox 13.1 it has been further optimised to provide better performance, especially for larger and more complex documents.
PdfToolbox 13.1 supports the optimisation of complex vector objects. Vector paths are simplified by replacing those parts of them that extend beyond their clipping paths by a straight line (in effect removing all complexity that is invisible because it is clipped anyway). As this happens a lot in some complex files, this can have very significant results on reducing file complexity.
Also in version 13.1, pdfToolbox now supports transparency (specifying opacity, blend modes, etc.) when using Place Content technology to add content to a PDF document.
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